Panera, YO! Sushi Signage Posted in Chinatown

In June we admired the progress at the building on the corner of 7th and H St, NW. This is the building that will be home to a YO! Sushi, Walgreens and a Panera. Now you can see exactly where the YO! Sushi and Panera will be located on H St, NW just east of 7th Street.

Hope the Walgreens in 24/7. It’s annoying how often I have wanted to pick something up only to see the CVS on 8th close at 10:00. Yeah, the CVS down H is already 24/7. But, it’s a little out of the way from the metro and is on a pretty sketchy block at night.

This is not just about a short order restaurant chain that routinely wins my imaginary awards for ‘biggest letdown’ and ‘I can’t believe I thought that was good in high school.’ This is about the constant push push push East and North. As the first missionaries in North Africa laid the groundwork for colonialism, so do Panera Breads serve as white people oases within patches of uncertainty, calking the cracks between gentrified neighborhoods with pesto paninis. Panera Breads are like ‘base’ for white people, who “you know I know the neighborhood is changing but it’s still a little dangerous and anything can happen” all day long. This is deceptively significant – one day we may wake and find the whole district is Panera Breads and Maclaren strollers.

hahaha. white people base. i wish i didn’t agree with you.
though, your suggestion of a racial drive is a limited understanding. all peoples all over the earth, when given power, have expanded their domains. you mention north africa. colonized by african kingdoms and arabs, as well.

How did the Panera floodgates break? I’ve been bragging for 10 years the entirety of DC refuses to accept the chain (bolstered by locations closely flanking the city in Maryland suburbs; one on GA ave in Silver Spring and another directly across the border in Chevy Chase). Then all of a sudden, woosh!